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About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
Nearly 31 million adults in America have a total cholesterol level that is more than 240 mg per dL.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
In 1886, William Bates reported on the discovery of a substance produced by the adrenal gland that turned out to be epinephrine (adrenaline). In 1904, this drug was first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz.
Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.